On this week's show, I was joined by Stuart Mitchell, the founder of Hampton North, a specialist cybersecurity search firm, headquartered in the US with 3 staff.

He's based in Connecticut, just between Boston and New York.

He launched the business in September 2022, so we're only nine months into his journey.

I wanted to interview Stuart because he’s built an incredible personal brand. I have never worked with Stuart, so I can't take any credit, but the way he works is exactly how I believe the modern recruiter should.

It's what I teach thousands of people to do all over the world. He started investing in his personal brand in 2017 and by 2019 he was at Stott & May on the west coast of America.

He was bringing in business all over the world for his teammates and he started to realise the power of personal branding and inbound on LinkedIn.

He then teamed up with RecruitHub and launched his own agency.

After nine months, he has billed over $ 1 million which is incredible!

He's now at three people and he wants to build a company that is fit for the modern era - a remote first business.

All of the people who worked for him have approached him, and they're already top billers elsewhere.

So, anyone who's looking to start an agency, you're going to learn a lot. Anyone who's already running a business, you could learn a hell of a lot from the way he's running his.

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And if you don't perform, you don't pay. 

How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons

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2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. 

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